to have sleeping accommodations: He says we can bed there for the night.

Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum.

(of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.

Archaic. to go to bed.

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Verb Phrases

bed down,

to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.).

to retire to bed: They put out the fire and decided to bed down for the night.

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Idioms

get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day: Never try to reason with him when he's gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.

go to bed,

to retire, especially for the night.

to engage in sexual relations.

go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.

in bed,

beneath the covers of a bed.

engaged in sexual intercourse.

jump/get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally: Industry was charged with jumping into bed with labor on the issue.

make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.

make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results: You've made your bed—now lie in it.

put to bed,

to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed.

Printing.to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing.

to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.

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Origin of bed

before 1000;Middle English;Old Englishbedd; cognate with Old Frisian,Dutchbed,Old Saxonbed(de), Old High Germanbetti (GermanBett), Gothicbadi < Germanic*badjan (neuter); akin to Latinfodere to dig, OCS bodǫ,Lithuanianbedù I pierce, Welshbedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground

Word Origin and History for bedding

n.

later Old English beddinge "bedding, bed covering," from bed. Meaning "bottom layer of anything" is from c.1400.

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bed

v.

Old English beddian "to provide with a bed or lodgings," from bed (n.). From c.1300 as "to go to bed," also "to copulate with, to go to bed with;" 1440 as "to lay out (land) in plots or beds." Related: Bedded; bedding.